For more information, please refer to the original post about this cosplay. T
FINISHED!
Construction
(so far)
- Some thin cardboard for rigidity
- Snippy snippy
- Compass-ion guide me
- Middle strip width approximator
- We have a circle!
- Derp
- Derp
- Snippy snippy
- Derp
- Cardboard middles to be sandwiches by canvas
- Pre-treated boat canvas (Just laying around, conveniently)
- Circles on the canvas
- It’s rebelling.
- Flour tortillas?
- Middle strip
- Strips
- Ready to glue? No wait!
- I need hot water first
- Instant coffee and tea
- Ummm…tasty?
- Ready to pour…
- IT CAN GET SOUPY!
- Staining the pieces to look distressed
- Staining the pieces to look distressed
- All done (and they smell tasty too)
- Pretty good looking, methinks
- Pretty good looking, methinks
- Dyed pieces ready for gluing
- Starting with these bits
- All glued together
- Front and back
- Gluing the strip
- My random box of scrap and stuffs
- This handy bit of leather seems to match perfectly
- Time to trim the uneven parts
- Trimming started
- All trimmed
- Wing dividers make a constant appearance
- Marked up
- Marking up the round bits too
- Marked edges
- Punch too makes an appearance again
- Modified to use every other one
- Reassembled
- Lining up the tool
- Instead of punching, I’m just drawing
- Dots!
- More dots
- And…more dots
- Dremel
- Little holes
- Bigger dremel bit
- Bigger holes
- Holy flour tortillas Batman!
- Derp
- I’m a frayed knot
- I initially thought that I could pull it through the holes…
- …by attaching thread to it. (I was wrong)
- Starting the assembly
- Instead, I realized I needed an aglet (google it)
- Add some superglue for stiffness
- Finished aglet! (worked like a charm too)
- Completed inside view
- Completed outside view
- Supergluing the ending knot
- Marking off the top flap
- Peeling a little back after cutting out the shape
- The cut out shape
- Extra flaps
- An overview shot for funzies
- Hot gluing the flaps to give a finished appearance to the flap
- All glued up
- Top flap piece, top
- Belt loops made from the leftover lid parts
- Folded
- Glued into place
- Drilling holes to assist the sewing
- Holy belt loops Batman
- Start the stitching
- This took forever. Four layers of canvas and two layers of cardboard per stitch.
- See the thickness? I needed pliers, just like the boots.
- One’s on!
- The inside.
- Leather piece to catch the drill
- You’ll see…
- Drill baby drill!
- Closing the loop
- It looks kind of like a corset.
- A sewed up. One completed loop, w00t. (and a little lighter happy, as you can see)
- Belt fits nicely.
- And the other one. *Grumbles*
- Whew! Done.
- Finished belt loops.
- Laid in place for illustrative purposes.
- Fabric buttons!
- Finished covered button
- Cutting a hole for the button
- A straight pin to hold the button in place
- Snipping the straight pin down to size
- Pinned in place button
- Glue to hold it tight ;)
- Finished right pouch
- Finished right pouch back
- Open sandwich!











































































































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